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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROCK, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal
Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea.
Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks
First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal
Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea.
Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks
SLOW sloping to its point pyramidal,
A brown rock rises from the ocean waste;
Seaward, great billows there incessant haste
And to their shoreward brethren flash and call.
I see the vast horizon rise and fall,
As when my blood with many raptures raced;
And on that pointed rock, by heaven embraced,
I see a maiden lifted over all.
As shines the rose above inferior flowers,
So sprang her beauty up, supreme to be;
As comes the rainbow on departing showers,
So bloomed and faded that fair memory;
So stood she 'on the top of happy hours,'
And drank the sunrise glory of the sea.
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